Welcome back to the Rules Tip Blog! Today we’ll be covering effects that set a life total to a specific number. Right now in Standard we’ve got a few cards that do this, such as and . When a life total is set to a specific number, most people are just going to change their […]
Category: Abilities
Emrakul and Controlling Another Player
Welcome back! Eldritch Moon gave us a lot of scary colorless cards, the scariest of which is . Emrakul is the newest in the line of cards that let you control another player during their turn (colloquially called “” effects, after the first such card printed in Mirrodin block!). While it hasn’t been that long […]
Mirrorwing Dragon And You!
Making spells go wide to hit multiple targets has been used a few times through the history of Red magic, and the most recent addition to that stable comes to us from Eldritch Moon: . ON the surface this seems to function the same as ; when you cast an instant or sorcery that ONLY […]
All About Tree of Perdition
For today’s Rules Tips, we’ll be covering , the anti-backwards sibling of . Like Tree of Redemption, Perdition is a 0/13 Defender for 4 mana with a nifty ability that trades life totals for toughness. Where Redemption swapped its toughness with YOUR life total, Perdition (being black and spooky and all) swaps with an OPPONENT’S […]
Tamiyo, Field Researcher: How Many Draws?
Welcome back to the Rules Blog! This particular question came up a lot during the spoiler season, and we’re still seeing it now that the whole set is out. is a really neat card, with some interesting effects. Her -2 and -7 are both very good and very straightforward, so why is she getting a […]
All About Spell Queller
Good morning and welcome back to the Rules Tips Blog! As of last Friday, all the cool new cards from Eldritch Moon are legal for play in Standard (and Legacy and Modern, for that matter). So, with that fresh batch of new cards, we’ve got fresh new questions, with fresh new answers! We’ll start off […]
Eldritch Moon Prerelease Primer
Good morning and welcome to the EMN Prerelease Primer! This time around we decided to cover all the mechanics in one article, so they’d be fresh on your minds as you all head off to your events at midnight tonight and this weekend! To start with, I’m going to toss out a link to our […]
Bibliothèque sylvestre et Chaînes de Mephistopheles
Pour terminer en beauté, abandonnons le royaume du raisonnable pour nous aventurer dans les terres les plus folles. La est déjà une vieil enchantement bizarre qui implique des pioches, du coup que se passe-t-il quand on le couple avec le vieil enchantement bizarre et qui fait mal au crâne préféré des joueurs de legacy, les […]
Quand la bibliothèque sylvestre entre dans le monde des tournois compétitifs
La est la source de nombreuses discussions d’arbitres sur “Comment on gère ça dans la vraie vie ?” Et la réglementation officielle a changé un certain nombre de fois. Les règles complètes de Magic gèrent parfaitement la carte et avec une interface qui ne prend pas en compte la dextérité humaine (comme MTGO), il n’y […]